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Area mourning loss of ‘great person’

July 3, 2008

Colleagues are remembering Jim Ellis as a knowledgeable basketball coach who was an even better person. Ellis, an assistant basketball coach for several years at Bishop Guilfoyle High School and more recently at Penn State Altoona, died of cancer earlier this week at UPMC in Shadyside. He was 42. “I never heard a bad word about him, and the kids loved him,’’ said former Bishop Guilfoyle coach Dave Benton. “My first year of coaching at BG I was the assistant freshman coach, and he played on the freshman team. “We later hired him as a varsity assistant when I was the varsity coach,’’ Benton said. “He knew his [basketball], and the kids respected him.’’ Ellis also served on BG coaching staffs with Terry Sullivan and Tom McConnell. For the past three seasons, he was an assistant coach for Alan Seretti and the Penn State Altoona men’s basketball program. “As in any profession, you’re only as good a coach as you are a person, and Jim was a great person,’’ Seretti said.

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Glendale’s Mazenko steps away from coaching

May 15, 2008



Gregg Mazenko never got to make that trip to interdistricts he so desperately wanted. He never got to put the Moshannon Valley League, Juniata Valley League or District 6 championships in the trophy case as he would have liked, either.

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Catich to continue at Wheeling Jesuit

April 29, 2008



Steve Catich hadn’t even heard of Wheeling Jesuit University until it began recruiting him a few months ago.

‘‘I didn’t know about them until I got a letter from them midway through the season.’’ Catich said.

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Former basketball great remembered

April 27, 2008

Editor’s note: Due to an editing error in Saturday’s paper, the Mirror is re-running this story.



Teammates remember Pat Nicodemus as an outstanding basketball player and as a guy who could make friends laugh anytime.

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Frycklund jumps back into coaching

April 16, 2008

Tuesday was Tax Day, and Penn Cambria High School athletics already got a big return.

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Carroll opens coaching job

April 9, 2008

The Bishop Carroll High School girls basketball program might be on the verge of a fourth coaching change in the five years since it won a second consecutive PIAA championship.

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